PSYC-375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Movement Disorder, Antipsychotic, Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor
11 Mar 2019
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15-17: class of drugs that have been developed specifically to treat schizophrenia. Schizophrenia is a very debilitating disorder that can drastically change an individual"s thoughts and mood. There are many approaches to treatment of schizophrenia, but in this section we will discuss the pharmacological approach. This approach is not intended to cure the disease, but rather to treat the symptoms so that the patient can return to a normal life. Positive symptoms: positive symptoms are psychotic behaviors not generally seen in healthy people. People with positive symptoms may lose touch with some aspects of reality. Symptoms include: hallucinations, delusions, thought disorders (unusual or dysfunctional ways of thinking, movement disorders (agitated body movements) Negative symptoms: negative symptoms are associated with disruptions to normal emotions and behaviors. Flat affect (reduced expression of emotions via facial expression or voice tone: reduced feelings of pleasure in everyday life, difficulty beginning and sustaining activities, reduced speaking.
